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abdicate
(transitive) to renounce (office or authority); (intransitive) to renounce office or authority
Following the humiliating loss of some 300 ships to the Vandals, Majorian, one of the last of the Roman emperors, was forced to abdicate.
Related English words: abdicable, abdicant (abdicating), abdication, abdicative, abdicator
Latin root words: abdico, abdicare, abdicavi, abdicatus - to renounce, reject; to disown, disavow; abdicatio, abdicationis, f. - renunciation; disavowal
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